005. Expected Difficulty Adjustment, Trending Miner Prices, Luxor Teases Move Into Firmware, Galaxy Digital’s 2023 Total Exahash Prediction, Is Solo Mining the Future, and more

POD256 - Episode 005. Expected Difficulty Adjustment, Trending Miner Prices, Luxor Teases Move Into Firmware, Galaxy Digital’s 2023 Total Exahash Prediction, Is Solo Mining the Future, and more
Date: January 26, 2023
Block Height: 773,730
In this week's episode, Econoalchemist and Rod cover:
State of the Network:

• Bitrawr - difficulty estimator: https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator
• Mempool.space - hashrate & difficulty: https://mempool.space/
• ASIC prices - Hashrate Index from Luxor: https://data.hashrateindex.com/asic-index-data
• Hashvalue - Braiins insights: https://insights.braiins.com/en/

News:

• FIRMWARE: https://twitter.com/btctwatterpants/status/1617157948307869696
• https://twitter.com/LuxorTechTeam/status/1618350836673019904
• https://twitter.com/LincoinPool/status/1617918730658549760
• ASICs: https://twitter.com/hash_bender/status/1617345633416888322
• ENERGY USAGE: https://twitter.com/documentingbtc/status/1618329117174427648
• YEAR-END: https://twitter.com/intangiblecoins/status/1618594059429511168
• https://twitter.com/_amanda_fab/status/1618266029393862657
• HOME MINING: https://twitter.com/jstefanop1/status/1617932480425910272
• https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1616646056930050049
• FINANCE: https://braiins.com/blog/debt-capital-markets-in-bitcoin-mining-part-1
• https://twitter.com/_drewarmstrong_/status/1616461259796541441

Home Miner of the Week:

• https://twitter.com/x218935/status/1617602356207816705
• Tag your favorite home miner setup using #POD256 

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